Adelaide
Adelaide is a girl name of German origin, meaning Of noble kind.
What Adelaide means
Of noble kind.
Adelaide sits at 8 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room. Its 5 vowels give it a flowing rhythm.
Where Adelaide comes from
German names are typically Germanic compounds, built from two elements — often one describing strength or protection and one describing a domain such as battle, home, or people.
Adelaide is recorded as German in origin. Browse other German names.
How popular is Adelaide?
Adelaide sits outside the top 100 girl names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Adelaide
Two ideas meet in Adelaide: Noble and the long-established classics. Names carrying more than one theme tend to be the ones that suit a wider range of siblings.
Names like Adelaide
These share Adelaide's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Albert — Noble and bright.
- Adeline — Noble; of noble kind.
- Alice — Noble; of the nobility.
- Patricia — Noble; patrician.
- Eugene — Well-born; noble.
- Adalyn — Noble; of noble kind.
- Adelynn — Noble and serene.
- Heidi — Noble, nobility.
- Caroline — Free woman; strong.
- Della — Noble and bright.
- Elke — Noble.
- Harriet — Ruler of the home.